jaar-revision-and-response
Use when revising a Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR) article after a revise-and-resubmit and writing the response to readers' reports. Reviewers come from different traditions and methods, so the response must satisfy each on its own terms while protecting the article's argument and its broad significance. Plans the revision and response; it does not fabricate sources.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jaar-revision-and-response --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Revision & Response (jaar-revision-and-response) A JAAR **R&R** is a genuine opening at a journal that rejects ~90%. But the readers may come from very different corners of the study of religion (a textual scholar, a theorist, an ethnographer), and they will ask for different things. The response letter must answer each report on its own terms while keeping the **argument** and its **broad significance** intact — and the revision stays double-blind. ## When to trigger - An R&R / revise decision arrived and you are planning the revision + response letter - Readers' reports pull in different methodological directions - A reader asks for engagement with a literature or source base that would reshape the article - Writing the cover note to the editor ## Strategy 1. **Read the editor's letter as the rubric.** The editor distills which points are decisive; address those first. The editor — not any single reader — adjudicates. 2. **Point-by-point, every comment.** Quote or paraphrase each reader comment, then respond; do not skip any, even ones you decline. 3. **Concede or reply with reasons.** Where a reader is right, revise and say where (section/page); where you disagree, make the sc
- When to trigger
- Strategy
- Response-letter format
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Worked vignette: reconciling a textual reader and a theorist
- Supplementary resources
What does the jaar-revision-and-response skill do?
Use when revising a Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR) article after a revise-and-resubmit and writing the response to readers' reports. Reviewers come from different traditions and methods, so the response must satisfy each on its own terms while protecting the article's argument and its broad significance. Plans the revision and response; it does not fabricate sources.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jaar-revision-and-response --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.